If you want Microsoft to take a phone call, then you need a hypervisor with the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certificate: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx
That includes Citrix XenServer, Red Hat RHEL and RHEV, Oracle VM, Novell SLES, and VMware ESX. Basically the answer is that you need a commercial hypervisor (because SVVP certification takes weeks to do, and months up front to get the drivers and hypervisor perfect). If you'll excuse me a corporate plug for a moment, Windows support is one area that XenServer does particularly well (it's very much in line with Citrix's business). Cheers, Ewan. > -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of Tim Bell > Sent: 28 January 2012 12:35 > To: Sandy Walsh; Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting > > > With the Hyper-V support being phased out, I would be interested to > understand: > > - What hypervisors are being used for running Windows guests (both > Windows 7 and Windows Server) on top of OpenStack ? > - To what extent will Microsoft support problems reported with a > Windows guest running on a non-Microsoft hypervisor ? > - Are there other sites who are affected by this proposal who would be > willing to invest effort to maintain the Hyper-V support ? > > Tim Bell > CERN > > -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Sandy Walsh > Sent: 27 January 2012 16:45 > To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting > > I'll be taking the existing Zones code out of API and Distributed > Scheduler. > The new Zones infrastructure is an optional component. > > -S > ________________________________________ > From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace....@lists.launchpad.net > [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace....@lists.launchpad.net] on > behalf of Thierry Carrez [thie...@openstack.org] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:23 AM > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting > > Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to > consider removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless > feature code from the Essex tree. > > Here are my suggestions for removal: > > - Ajaxterm (unmaintained, security issues, replaced by VNC console) > - Hyper-V support (known broken and unmaintained) > > I'm sure that everyone has suggestions on other dead wood that we > should cut now rather than ship in Essex... please comment. > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > Release Manager, OpenStack > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
